12 to 1 p.m.
Friday, March 18, 2016
EPIC Innovation – Joyce Entrepreneurship Centre
2455 Wyandotte St. W., 2nd floor
University of Windsor
Global projections indicate that demand for freshwater, energy and food will increase significantly over the next decades under the pressure of population growth and mobility, economic development, international trade, urbanisation, diversifying diets, cultural and technological changes and climate change, according to the Stockholm Environment Institute.
Dr. Slobodan Simonovic, a civil and environmental engineering professor at the University of Western Ontario, will discuss ways to mitigate and adapt to these global pressures during a presentation at UWindsor on March 18. His speech titled A Systems Approach to Modelling Water-Energy-Food Nexus will present an innovative society-biosphere-climate model.
The model consists of nine individual sectors that reproduce the main characteristics of the climate, carbon cycle, economy, land use, population, surface water flow and water demand and water quality sectors at a global scale. The model also explores the manner in which interactions or feedback between these subsystems determine the behaviour of the whole Earth-system.
Dr. Simonovic is a globally recognized and award-winning expert in water resources systems engineering and engineering chair of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction. He has published more than 450 professional publications and three major textbooks. Dr. Simonovic’s primary research interest focuses on the application of a systems approach to management of complex water and environmental systems.
This presentation is part of the University of Windsor’s Centre for Energy and Water Advancement Distinguished Speakers Series. The presentation is free and open to the public.